12 PDR. MOUNTAIN HOWITZER & PACK CARRIAGE. 1849 - 1890.
Port Huron, MI: Anitque Ordinance Publishers, 1992. Oblong 4to with coated card stock covers. Illustrated with facsimile diagrams throughout.
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1935 FEDERAL EMPLOYEES YEAR BOOK AND FEDERAL DIRECTORY OF GOVERNMENT ACTIVITIES IN THE STATE OF VIRGINIA.
Norfolk and Portsmouth, Va. National Federation of Federal Employees, [1935]. Hard Cover. Black and white photographic illustrations -- the President; Rear Adm. Charles Freeman, Commandant, Portsmouth Navy Yard; A. Walke Truxton, Collector of Customs, Norfolk; Harold King, Commissioner of Lighthouses;.....
1952 OLDSMOBILE SHOP MANUAL.
Lansing, Michigan: Oldsmobile Division | General Motors Corporation, 1952. This is an original copy of the 1952 Oldsmobile Shop Manual, in just about As New condition. It is still housed in the original cardboard shipping box. A remarkable opportunity for.....
1953 OLDSMOBILE SHOP MANUAL.
Lansing, Michigan: Oldsmobile Division | General Motors Corporation, 1953. This is an original copy of the 1953 Oldsmobile Shop Manual, in just about As New condition (crease to front panel). It is still housed in the original cardboard shipping box.....
1956 OLDSMOBILE SHOP MANUAL.
Lansing, Michigan: Oldsmobile Division | General Motors Corporation, 1956. This is an original copy of the 1956 Oldsmobile Shop Manual, in just about As New condition. It is still housed in the original cardboard shipping box. A remarkable opportunity for.....
ABC BUCH UND LESE UND DENK-UEBUNGEN BEI DEM ERSTEN UNTERRICHT DER KINDER: NACH DEN BESTEN MUSTENR VON PESTALOZZI, STEPHANI UND ANDERN BEARBEITET. ERSTES BUCH.
New York: H. Ludwig, 1871. Hard Cover. An ABC book in German, with charming woodcut illustrations. In printed paper-covered boards, backed in blue cloth.
ACTS OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF KENTUCKY, 1861, 1862, 1863: PASSED AT THE CALLED SESSION WHICH WAS BEGUN AND HELD IN THE CITY OF FRANKFORT, ON THURSDAY, THE 17th DAY OF JANUARY, 1861, AND ENDED ON THE FIFTH DAY OF APRIL, 1961 // BOUND WITH // PUBLIC ACTS OF THE STATE OF KENTUCKY // BOUND WITH // ACTS ... AT THE SESSION... ON MONDAY THE SECOND DAY OF SEPTEMBER ,1851 // BOUND WITH LOCAL AND PRIVATE ACTS OF THE STATE OF KENTUCKY
Frankort, Kentucky: Yeoman’s Office; John R. Major, 1861, 1862, & 1863. Hard Cover. Gathering of First Edition reports of the Kentucky General Assembly at the height of the Civil War. The legislation deals with all aspects of the war years.....
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ACTS OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA [1812, 1813, 1814] (3 books bound as one)
Philadelphia / Harrisburg: John Bioren / Jacob Elder, 1813, 1814, 1815. Octavo. Full Leather. Three volumes bound in one, 1812 and 1814 Acts have their title pages, 1813 is lacking the title page; full bound in sheep with morocco spine.....
ACTS OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF VIRGINIA, PASSED AT THE REGULAR SESSION, COMMENCING DECEMBER 5th, IN THE 89th YEAR OF THE COMMONWEALTH (1865)
Alexandria [Virginia]: “State Journal” Print, 1865. Original Sewn Wrappers. 8vo.; in the publisher’s original printed sewn wrappers; 75 pages; minor loss to the spine and edges.~~In the months following the end of the Civil War when important legislation was being.....
ACTS OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF VIRGINIA, Passed at the Session of 1835-36, Commencing 7th December, 1835, and Ending 24th March, 1836, in the Sixtieth Year of the Commonwealth.
Richmond, VA. Printed By Thomas Ritchie, 1836. Hard Cover. Previous owner's name stamped on front and rear endpapers. Ink note written at spine on title page but no other ink markings evident. Foxing througout text. One-half brown leather and marbled.....
ACTS PASSED AT A GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA ... IN THE CITY OF RICHMOND ... IN THE YEAR OF OUR LORD ONE THOUSAND EIGHT HUNDRED AND NINETEEN (1819) [BOUND WITH] ... ONE THOUSAND EIGHT HUNDRED AND TWENTY (1820) [BOUND WITH] ... ONE THOUSAND EIGHT HUNDRED AND TWENTY-ONE (1821) [BOUND WITH] ONE THOUSAND EIGHT HUNDRED AND TWENTY-TWO (1822) [BOUND WITH] ONE THOUSAND EIGHT HUNDRED AND TWENTY-THREE (1823). FIVE YEARS BOUND TOGETHER
Richmond: Thomas Ritchie, 1819 - 1823. First Edition. Five years bound together of the Acts of the Virginia General Assembly from 1819 through 1823. From the legal library of William Brent, of “Richland” near Aquia in Stafford County and so.....
ALBUM FROM THE 1880’s -- CHROMOLITHOGRAPHS
An attractive album almost certainly from the 1880’s, and chock full of delightful chromolithographs. Few things more evocative of Victorian charms than albums such as this one.
ALTE TABAKZEICHEN (Old Tobacco Labels)
Berlin: Widder-Verlag, 1924. Handsomely produced and illustrated with color and black and white images of tobacco labels. This is #373 of 500 copies.
THE AMERICAN REGISTER, OR GENERAL REPOSITORY OF HISTORY, POLITICS AND SCIENCE. PART I FOR 1809 (VOLUME V)
Philadelpia: C. & A. Conrad, 1809. Octavo. Quarter Leather. 400pp. Backed in contemporary red sheep with marbled paper covered boards; textblock is untrimmed (generous margins) and is a bit larger than the boards making this appear to be a publisher’s.....
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[AMERICANA] [CAPITOL BLDG.] MORRISON’S STRANGER’S GUIDE AND ETIQUETTE, FOR WASHINGTON CITY AND ITS VICINITY.
Washington: W. H. and O. H. Morrison, 1864. 24mo. Sixth Edition. 24mo in brown cloth in a fine hexagonal grain, over flexible boards; embossed in blind, with titling in gilt to the upper board. Illustrated with 3 folding plans of.....
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[AMERICANA] [CAPITOL BLDG.] MORRISON’S STRANGER’S GUIDE AND ETIQUETTE, FOR WASHINGTON CITY AND ITS VICINITY.
Washington: W. H. and O. H. Morrison, 1862. 24mo. 24mo in brown cloth in a diaper pattern, over flexible boards; embossed in blind, with titling in gilt to the upper board. “Illustrated with wood and steel engravings, entirely re-written and.....
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[AMERICANA] [SAMMELBAND] FOUR WORKS ON EARLY AMERICAN HISTORY | AN ACCOUNT OF GENERAL LA FAYETTE’S VISIT TO VIRGINIA.; CHARTER AND BY-LAWS OF THE NEW YORK HISTORICAL SOCIETY.; PROCEEDINGS OF THE VIRGINIA HISTORICAL SOCIETY AT THE ANNUAL MEETING.; The Official Letters of Alexander Spotswood, Lieutenant-Governor of the Colony of Virginia. (ONE VOLUME)
New York | Richmond: West, Johnston & Co. | Published by the Society, [1881-1882]. Half Leather. A sammelband of four Richmond imprints, on early American history, or proceedings of historical societies. Contemporary owner’s name on the front endpaper, of Dr.....
ANCIENT CHINESE IDEOLOGISTS
With paper-cuts and stamps of Confucius, Mencius; Lao Tzu, Chuang Tzu; Mosi; and Xunzi. The papercuts are splendid. In Chinese and in English. Paper-covered boards in a printed clamshell box. The binding is Near Fine and the paper cuts are.....
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[ANCIENT WORLD] [TRADE CATALOGUE] MAGICAL WOODCRAFT. “THE MAGIC SHOP OF THE WEST”
Los Angeles, Cal. Thayer & Christianer, n.d. Trade catalogue presented to “the magical fraternity” by the Thayer & Christianer concern -- “The Magic Shop of the West” in Los Angeles. From the “Mephisto” table, to a ventriloquist’s dummy, this catalogue.....
ANHANG ZU DEM ZITTAUISCHEN GESANG-BUCH IN DIESEN BELIEBTEN FORMAT GEBRACHT. [APPENDIX TO THE ZITTAU HYMNAL, OR SONG-BOOK, BROUGHT IN THIS PLEASING FORMAT.]
Zittau: verlegts Joh. Jacob Schöps, 1750. Hard Cover. An eighteenth century Lutheran hymnal, published in Zittau, 1750, by Johann Jacob Schöps. Text in German. As was common for Lutheran hymnals, there is no musical notation, only lyrics. Hymns are numbered.....
[ARCHAEOLOGY Actas De La Academia Nacional De Ciencias De La Republica Argentina Tomo X
Cordoba: Academia Nacional De Ciencias, 1928. Hard Cover. Illustrated w Plates and Folding Charts; Previous owner's stamp affixed to bottom of short title page and to bottom of a couple of text pages. No pencil or ink markings in text.....
ARMY APPROPRIATION ACTS. 1861 - 1885
Government Printing Office, 1861-1885. Appropriations for the Army as passed at sessions of Congress, excised from the volumes of the Government Printing Office, and bound together in three-quarter morocco over marbled boards, with a morocco label letters in gilt to.....
THE ART-JOURNAL. JANUARY, 1867-OCTOBER, 1867. TEN ISSUES. (ONE VOLUME)
London: [J. S. Virtue & Co.], 1867. Half Leather. The January through October, 1867 issues of the Art Journal, with numerous engraved plates, and additional plates depicting art works from the Paris Universal Exhibition of 1867, the second world’s fair.....
ARTILLERY FOR THE LAND SERVICE OF THE UNITED STATES. 12 PDR GUN NAPOLEON #20. 1849 - 1865.
Port Huron, MI: Anitque Ordinance Publishers, 1984. Oblong 4to with coated card stock covers. Illustrated with facsimile diagrams throughout.
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[ASHLAND] [ORIGINAL PHOTOGRAPH] BECKY KERR’S DEVASTATING DAMSELS
An original sepia photograph, 8” x 10”, which was featured on the cover of the Images of America book on Ashland, Virginia by Dale Paige Talley. Helpfully pencilled on the verso of the photograph is “The Chorus, Minstrel Show’ |.....